Culture
Ireland's vibrant culture - from Irish customs and traditions, language, music, art, film and literature, Irish cuisine, and more.
These 26 people have been named the most inspirational in Ireland
CLRG cancels 2021 All Irelands, pursues new date for 2021 Worlds
From our shore to your door - The IrishCentral Box launches!
Denver cancels 2021 St. Patrick’s Day parade due to COVID
First major English-Irish dictionary in 60 years released
U2 release special 20th-anniversary edition of "All That You Can't Leave Behind"
IrishCentral’s Book of the Month: “After the Silence” by Louise O’Neill
IrishCentral readers’ favorite Irish names for boys or girls
Jessie Buckley and Dermot Kennedy set for Graham Norton Show this week
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- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening
Craic
Ten monsters Ireland gave the world, from Dracula to the Mayo vampire
The Irish men we think deserve People's Sexiest Man Alive
Do you have news from your Irish community? Share it with our global audience
Turnip lanterns, false faces and a bin bag for a costume, Halloween in Ireland
The bonfires and black cats the Irish used to keep the fairies away on Samhain
Entertainment
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
"The secret's out!" Garth Brooks CONFIRMS Irish stadium tour
West Cork couple tie the knot on American TV
Sinéad O'Connor's children confirm new music is on the way
Bono, The Corrs and the memory of Glen Hansard power a Christmas of giving for Dublin homelessness charity
Food & Drink
Mulled wine and bonfire soup are what the fifth of November was made for
Give your Thanksgiving table a honey-spiced Brussels sprouts upgrade
Donal Skehan’s pumpkin risotto is the best use for your leftover Halloween pumpkin
Happy Halloween! The Irish origins of today's traditions
Original Irish Jack-o-Lanterns were made of turnips (and were truly terrifying)
Education
Say trick or treat as Gaeilge with 30 Irish words to use this Halloween
The Irish language was banned and fined out of public life but never died
Ireland's tricolour was woven in French silk and flew for just eight days in 1848
1,000-year-old manuscript recording St. Patrick's Ireland goes on display in Cork
Enoch Burke returns to school for new academic year
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